What the Health?

by Fiona Nicholson, Science Writer

“What special sort of new Hell is Veganuary?” asked Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain at the beginning of January. Within a week, the number of new sign-ups to the vegan charity, which has run each year since 2013, broke all expectations at over 160,000 worldwide and at least 50,000 of these in the UK alone. As we see so often, no separate data are available from Veganuary for Scotland, which has traditionally been slower to engage with the growing vegan trend. But with Vegan Dundee attracting 72 new members to bring its total to 1029 members, and Vegan Aberdeen with 1945 members, having gained 61 new members since the 1st of January, we can see why cities like Edinburgh and Glasgow have been vying since 2016 to become Vegan Capital of Scotland.